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Heinrich Rohrer

1933 - 2013

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Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Rohrer is the 114th most popular physicist (down from 109th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Physicist.

Heinrich Rohrer is most famous for his work in the field of scanning tunneling microscopy, which he co-invented.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 114 out of 851. Before him are Dennis Gabor, Clinton Davisson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Peter Higgs, Ernest Lawrence, and Jagadish Chandra Bose. After him are Walther Bothe, Peter Grünberg, Willis Lamb, Ernst Ruska, Arnold Sommerfeld, and François Arago.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 14. Before him are Yoko Ono, Michael Caine, Lina Medina, Claudio Abbado, Francisco Gento, and William Anders. After him are Jalal Talabani, Tinto Brass, James Brown, H. D. Deve Gowda, Just Fontaine, and Nina Simone. Among people deceased in 2013, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 10. Before him are Robert Edwards, Hugo Chávez, Jorge Rafael Videla, Donald A. Glaser, Pran, and Doris Lessing. After him are Võ Nguyên Giáp, Frederick Sanger, Robert Coleman Richardson, Mohammed Omar, Peter O'Toole, and Christian de Duve.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 25 out of 1,015. Before him are Johann Bernoulli (1667), Francesco Borromini (1599), Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945), Albert I of Germany (1255), Johanna Spyri (1827), and Alberto Giacometti (1901). After him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Conrad Gessner (1516), Bruno Ganz (1941), Arnold Böcklin (1827), Albert Hofmann (1906), and Jacob Burckhardt (1818).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 3. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), and K. Alex Müller (1927). After him are Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724).

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